I hope I'm still on the list.. with international shipping .. oh wait!.. I opened a special account for myself with NY address

 

Just curious, how are we going to be notified? Can I get an idea where I am on the list please and when when I should expect it? No rush, we are still buried under a few feet of snow.

I am just watching an Vin Diesel movie called A Man Apart and the bad guy has a 911 with a convertible top that he can control with a remote and it reminded me of my order here.

Thanks


Andre

 

If I have your email address you will be notified by email, otherwise by private mail through the forum.

You will be given a private link to order from my website using Paypal.

Again, sorry for the delay, but we are still working to wrap up the final testing. It should not be too much longer.

 

Steve:

As far as I am concerned, take your time. For many of us this will be a DIY installation, and we will be required to removed the roll bar boxes, handle wiring, and I am sure none of us want to ?u?k this up.

I know many would want to make sure that your device works properly and has been fully tested.

Thanks so much for the updates.

 

Thanks Richard. I absolutely agree. I want every one to have a good installation experience and really enjoy the product. If it takes longer that originally planned to start shipments in order to assure quality, then so it will be.

Also to be clear, I do not accept payment or orders until I have inventory ready to ship.

Even though TheJagWrangler is a part-time business, it continues to thrive because of a solid reputation for useful, quality products with great installation support.

 

Hi Steve, good to see this is going well, I'd expect no different.

Its quite simply your attention to detail and thorough thought through products with complete fool proof installation guides that mean people are queuing up to buy.

Hopefully its all sorted and good to go soon, anything we can do to help, please let us know.

Thanks

Jim

 

Steve, sorry for showing my anxiousness, however, any chance of an update and ETA on the product?

 

Thats OK, spring is in the air and lots of folks are wondering where their remotes are.

I have started shipping production LHD '07-'09 versions to the first customers on the waiting list. You should be hearing from me probably in fairly early April, if not sooner.

I have one more Beta validation to do on the LHD '10 and later versions planned for later this week. If all checks out, production for those will start shipping also.

The RHD Beta test unit got unfortunately ridiculously delayed in customs, but hopefully I will have a better idea of where we stand with that within a week.

 

Great. Looking forward to this technical marvel.

 

I'm excited and looking forward to it.

 

With all the pent up demand on display here, I could not help but jump in. Steve has been using my 2010 XKR as the guinea pig for his this development effort and has ben doing an outstanding job. I can confirm that we are very very close, and Steve is ready for what we expect to be the final code install and test. Once in place it will just be a matter of putting it through its paces for a final test run and sign off. I'll give a detailed account of Steve's efforts once things are finalized but for now, I can say once you have it, you won't understand how you could ever live without it.

 

Hi Steve,

Thanks for doing this. Being an engineer myself, I can appreciate all the hard work it must have taken to figure out the details of interfacing with the existing Jag system and to come up with your amazing device.

In about 2 years of owning my 2008 XKR, the same stupid design with the convertible top has bitten me about 4 times now (inevitably always at the most inconvenient/embarassing times):
It turns out that if you turn the ignition off or try and start the car at the same time as opening/closing the roof, the roof will immediately stop in a halfway open position and then cease to operate further. Apparently it's way too easy to make the computer completely forget the position of the roof by doing pretty much anything else at the same time, so it plays safe and wont move it at all any more. When it does get into this state there is only one (bloody inconvenient) solution:
1) remove the panel between the rear seats to obtain the special tool
2) go into the trunk, remove the side panel, open a valve on the roof pump with the tool
3) locate and pull on an often hard-to-find handle to manually open the roof cover
4) wait for maybe 15 minutes for the pressure to bleed off in the hydraulic roof system so you can then manhandle the roof into its stowed position.
5) close the hard cover, pump valve, boot panel, replace the tool, replace the panel between the seats
6) cycle the roof through a complete learning cycle.

Clearly your box circumvents/replaces significant parts of the functionality of Jaguar's roof computer/sequence, so I was wondering if it conveniently now also eliminates the need to go through that whole recovery process if you ever happen to cut the power with the roof halfway. (Even though I already know about the problem, the odd 'senior' moment still causes me to occasionally get caught out by it).
If your box doesn't currently address that problem, I would strongly recommend adding it as a (highly valuable) feature/future update if at all possible.

I really can't believe that Jag thought it was ever OK to market a car that behaves in this way. It seems there have been several big drops in acceptable quality/usability/common sense practice for the 2007+ model XKs compared to the old ones (don't even get me started on the subjects of bluetooth updates/phone/ACM USB handling/DVD media compatibility). For sure my old 2000 XKR didn't mind if you operated the roof and stopped halfway, or tried to start the car at the same time. I just dont see why this known problem (the recovery process is even documented in the handbook) should have ever actually existed at all.

Regards,
Neil.

 

Neil-
We are there already with the remote top design and have solved this problem! You can actually hit the remote or the console one touch button AND start the car WHILE the engine is cranking and everything works fine. It actually feels so much more natural just getting in and not having to wait.

You also can stop the operation at any time by hitting the opposite button from the direction the top is going and a second press will then let you continue or reverse.

Generally the only time the system might get confused now requiring a reset as you describe is if you have a very, very low battery or if it hits an obstacle....and these were always issues in the original design.

Steve

 

Thanks Michael. You have been incredibly patient and generous with your time. And thank you for entrusting me to work on your gorgeous vehicle.

Without Michael's help we would not have had a version for the 2010 and later cars anytime soon. Jaguar literally redesigned the 2010 and later cars so they speak a different language between the electronic modules.

 

Please count me in, including the rear window raiser.

I added a Kufatec remote roof module to an Audi A3 cab a few years ago. It required a reset of the error codes generated by the loss of communications whilst the roof module was disconnected when fitting the remote module. Will this be required after fitting to the Jaguar?

 

I will add you to the waiting list.

For the XK Remote, installation is performed with the battery disconnected, so it should not generate communications faults.

 

As the beta tester with my 2008 XKR I would like to concur with USMA above. There have been a few hic-ups but a email to Steve and it was fixed the day after, he's an absolute marvel, and with his very detailed instructions it is a very easy installation, Don't be afraid to take it on if your so inclined, and as above you will be amazed when you press the remote for the first time. I would like to take this opportunity To thank Steve for this Mod and for my chance to have helped and for his time and patience. THANK YOU .Bernie

 

Can't wait till its my turn on the waiting list.. (could not be that far down..)... new roof is installed.. and the weather here is perfect now..

 

Hows the wind draft with the back windows up too?

 

I havent had chance to drive it ,the snow has only just gone and the roads have not been cleaned yet, but i am sure it will help considerably . BL